On 10/28/2012 00:41, Jon Nordby wrote:
On 27 October 2012 23:34, spin<s...@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was planning to prepare a bugfix collaborative event/hackathon in the
Warsaw Hackerspace (http://hackerspace.pl). I can get support for it from
the Free and open Source Software Foundation (http://www.fwioo.pl/), as I've
talked with a few people already, and they are interested in giving media
support for the event. Also, some good and reliable programmers declared
will to participate already, so I'm quite positive about the success of
this.
Seeing the recent issues with the planned release, I want to speed things
up, and launch the event within four weeks (depends on necessary
preparations).
Could I ask of the developers and the artists participating in this mailing
list to enumerate the most important bugs we should put the biggest focus on
during the hackathon?
All non-bug-related suggestions are most welcome as well!
Cool, a MyPaint hackathon would be great! Wish I could participate in person.
One bug-related suggestion. How about doing bug-triaging during the
hackathon? This is an activity which in my experience scales very well
with more people involved, and is easy to get into also for those that
are new to the project and/or technologies (toolkit, programming
language etc).
It is not exactly the sexiest task, but having a clean bug-tracker
really helps with the productivity (and motivation) of developers and
new contributors.
Hey Jon,
This is a great suggestion! I will consider doing bugtracking depending
on the amount of people participating and the direction the event will
take, as it's still in preparation. I'll consult it around with people
in the hackerspace as well.
I want to do at least two of these events, and I expect about 60% of
participants covering both, so getting them to know their way around the
code on the first occasion would be great.
On the other side, I want to have a few harder tasks on the ready,
because some people may lose motivation over simple bugtrack choring
(and their resources would be suboptimally allocated as well).
I hope there will be enough people willing to participate in multiple
tasks, as the events here are rather crowded, but I will know this soon.
Regarding presence, it should be possible online - we have an IRC
channel (irc.freenode.net #hackerspace-pl), and we'll set up an etherpad
for the event. Getting a voip with video stream should be possible as
well, if needed. If you or any other developer would want to participate
online, that would be great, since you know your way around the code,
and will be able to answer questions that may otherwise take
considerable amounts of time.
Best,
spin
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